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Carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance studies of [Os6(CO)18]

Colin R. Eady, W. G. Jackson, Brian F. G. Johnson, J. D. Lewis, Trevor W. Matheson

Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications · 1975 · 14 citations · 0 references

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Materials ScienceInorganic ChemistryEngineeringFluxional ProcessesMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyTheoretical Inorganic ChemistryResonanceMagnetic ResonanceAtomic PhysicsOsmium AtomsCluster ChemistryChemistryInorganic MaterialCrystallographyNuclear Magnetic Resonance SpectroscopyBicapped Tetrahedral Arrangement

Abstract

The bicapped tetrahedral arrangement of osmium atoms in [Os6(CO)18] persists in solution up to 100 °C; in the temperature range –123 to +100 °C three fluxional processes corresponding to localised CO scrambling are observed.